People ride on a boat to a safer place as the Gomti river crossed the danger mark at Nakta Diyara in Patna on Thursday. PHOTO: Krishna Murari Kishan

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One of world’s biggest evacuations in Bihar

Aug. 28: In one of the biggest exercises of its kind anywhere in the world, over 25 lakh people marooned in the devastating Bihar floods are being evacuated. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who made an aerialFull story

Left allies seek Tata deal data

Aug. 28: The CPI(M) politburo on Thursday snubbed West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, making it clear the party "firmly stands for the right to strike by the working cl-ass as a fundamental right."Full story

Top Nihang is set on fire at Amritsar jail

Aug. 28: A controversial Sikh leader belonging to the militant Nihang sect was attacked and set on fire by two fellow prisoners inside Amritsar Jail Thursday morning.Full story

Hostages relive terror

Aug. 28: The Army and state police intensified search operations across Jammu Thursday, a day after the fierce 19-hour gunbattle at Chinore, ending 1 am Thursday, with the Army managing to rescue seven of the 11 hostages, including four children, and killing all three militants.Full story

Mobs still run amok, churches attacked

Aug. 28: There was no let-up in violence in Orissa’s strife-torn Kandhamal district on Thursday. Despite curfew and shoot-at-sight orders being in force, fresh attacks were reported from remote parts of Udayagiri, Raikia, Full story

Maya joins Sonia in Forbes power list

New York, Aug. 28: Making her debut in the club of the 100 most powerful women in the world, Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati has joined Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a list compiled by US business magazine Forbes.Full story

Munshi’s wife PCC gen secy in Bengal

Aug. 28: West Bengal’s Congress chief Priya Ranjan Das Munshi has appointed his wife Deepa, an MLA who represents Goalpokhar constituency in the state Assembly, as one of the PCC general secretaries.Full story

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